From: Nick Gotsinas <darf@gameforce.ca>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] macbook pro boot from usb
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:56:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4148690D-7003-47D2-A7DC-1E76CF0A0CEC@gameforce.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMpmEiFHH6cRv1GhOHSonc67hKvPnthLLZWtyWCJLV9SptiShA@mail.gmail.com>
I'm going to state the obvious and say did you try to hold ALT during boot?
I made a systermrescue on USB stick and it works just fine on my MacBook.
I also have Gentoo installed with Bootcamp and had no issues. Just make sure you partition with Guid
On 2011-08-24, at 5:36 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to experiment with Gentoo on a Mac but I don't seem to
> get past step 0, namely, booting from a gentoo usb stick
> (systemrescuecd). The Mac does not recognize the usb stick. I don't
> know much about Macs and searching the web has not been fruitful. In
> other computers without a Mac bios, it is a matter of changing the
> boot device order to the usb port. I don't know if such a thing exists
> in a Mac. If you have a gentoo mac I would appreciate inputs.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Valmor
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-24 22:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-24 21:36 [gentoo-user] macbook pro boot from usb Valmor de Almeida
2011-08-24 22:33 ` Paul Hartman
2011-08-25 6:27 ` Stroller
2011-08-25 15:06 ` Valmor de Almeida
2011-08-25 16:21 ` Valmor de Almeida
2011-08-25 17:50 ` [SOLVED] " Valmor de Almeida
2011-08-24 22:56 ` Nick Gotsinas [this message]
2011-08-24 23:39 ` Valmor de Almeida
2011-08-25 0:33 ` Valmor de Almeida
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=4148690D-7003-47D2-A7DC-1E76CF0A0CEC@gameforce.ca \
--to=darf@gameforce.ca \
--cc=gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox